Clockwise 278: Marie Kondo'ing Your Notifications
Jan 23, 2019
Ant Pruitt, a digital creator and tech commentator, and Megan Morrone, tech producer and host, join to weigh in on notifications, longform reading habits, foldable phones, and tech to boost sports broadcasts. They debate must-have alerts, reader tools like Pocket, whether foldables are gimmicks, and AR-driven enhancements for live games.
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Marie Kondo Your Notifications
- Regularly prune notifications to remove anxiety-inducing and useless alerts.
- Megan Morrone Marie Kondo's her notifications monthly, keeping only the few that truly spark joy or provide value like lock or timer alerts.
Choose Tunable Notifications Only
- Use finely tunable apps for essential alerts so notifications stay meaningful.
- Dan Moren cites Dark Sky's threshold-based weather alerts and Apple TV episode alerts as examples that respect attention.
Bridge Devices To Phone Alerts
- Forward smart-home or device events to your phone to avoid missing them.
- Dan Moren uses IFTTT to notify his phone when an Echo timer expires so tea doesn't oversteep if the audible alert is missed.